Second, if you use :SETVAR to define the value of an environmental variable, it changes only the variable within the script. The variable will retain its original value, as demonstrated in the Script2 ...

Now that you’ve automated the fetching of your flat file via FTP, the next step is to automatically import that file into SQL Server. To do this, we’ll use an SQL Server Agent Job.

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